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OPERATORS of car transporters win in future need A or B licences. Until now they have run under general trade licences.
The Minister of Transport told Miss E. Burton (Soc., Coventry South) in the House of Commons, last week, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to introduce a clause into the Finance Bill to bring this requirement into effect.'
The Transport and General Workers' Union have been pressing for this measure because they believe .that drivers' conditions will be better if transporters operate under carriers' licences. The Road Haulage Association have also been concerned about the matter.
The new clause is expected to be moved when the Finance Bill is consicfered in committee again in the House of Commons next week. It is unlikely that there will be apposition to. it. It is intended to come into force on January I, 1959.
MERSEY TUNNEL TOLLS: • OBJECTIONS DROPPED
BECAUSE proposals to increase Mersey Tunnel tolls on commercial vehicles have been substantially modified,. the transport committee of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have withdrawn the objection they submitted to the
Minister Of Transport. The Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee have now suggested that the toll for vehicles weighing over 4 tons should be 3s., 'with a similar fee for trailers.
This is 6d. more than the existing charge, and it has been accepted by all the organizations which originally objected to the proposed toll of 5s.
BETTER BUSINESS
BETWEEN October last and this month, the amount of business done by Leyland Motors, Ltd., in Australasia and south and east Asia rose by 48 per cent. compared with the same period 12 months earlier. Comet models are largely responsible for this improvement, although orders totalling £900,000 from the Ceylon Transport Board for buses have added to the picture.
Among Australian contracts is one of £400,000 for 156 Worldmaster singledeckers from the New South Wales Transport Department.